Performance, Religion, and Spirituality
The PRS working group examines the interconnection between the forms and impulses of religion, spirituality, and theatrical performance, attending to the ways performance and spiritual life have come into conversation, cooperation, and conflict, both historically and in the present.
PRS wishes to place its work at the intersection of the scholarly traditions of theatre studies and the study of religion. Both are committed to the critical inquiry of their material, and both are committed the joint participation of scholars from all corners of the world. This group is open to members from all national and cultural backgrounds, and it interests itself in the world’s religious, spiritual, and performative traditions.
Spirituality, religion and performance are, in our view, sets of social and cultural practices that have a profound and long-lasting importance to those involved in them. Because these practices are so important, we are committed to a nonsectarian inquiry of them. We assume no particular faith or religious affiliation for our members or our work.
PRS members, members of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and members of the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) edit Ecumenica, a peer-reviewed journal that twice annually publishes scholarship concerning theatre, performance, and religion. www.ecumenicajournal.org
PRS members and members of the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) have founded the journal PRS – Performance, Religion and Spirituality. The journal’s inaugural number is to be published October 2017. prsjournalorg.wordpress.com
16 December, 2022
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We invite proposals for conference papers, participatory activities, performances, storytellings, mythopoesis, speculative fictions, performative lectures and other processes...
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20 November, 2021
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The PRS Working Group invites proposals for conference papers and practice research for the 2022 IFTR Conference and a planned publication.
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20 November, 2020
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The Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group invites proposals for its 2021 IFTR Conference working group sessions
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04 December, 2019
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2020 IFTR Conference in Galway—call from the Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group.
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28 October, 2018
by David Mason
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For the 2019 conference, the PRS group welcomes proposals for research papers, reports on performances, demonstrations of artistic and religious practices, and other activities.
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30 December, 2017
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Invitation for papers that investigate the ways in which theatre, performance, and performativity are bound up with questions of migration, exchange, and understanding of the other.
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